Excuse the downtime.

ZX painting by my good friend Graham Lackey.

I almost got a job doing comic strips at a paper and then didn't and I was waiting to post good news and now I can't. Disheartening, so that's why I haven't touched the blog for a while. After the jump there is the alter apars, though. Might want to click if you're the optimist type. Otherwise this blog post is half-empty.

The good news is that... I have started... a long-format comic. I am on page 3. I will start posting on the blog when I have 5 pages. I aim for 2 pages per week drawn and one page per week posted on the blog - so I have extra pages for when I have to take vacations and whatever, the summer is coming up.

The method I am using for this comic is new to me and it has me excited and working - almost like a professional artist, although I'm not being paid, what strangeness. So please be patient a bit further and then this blog will get its official second wind. I might redesign the blog a bit, also.

I am not abandoning 'small shames' at all however, they are to be incorporated in the bigger project, actually. The art in this blog post is a hint as to what the bigger project will be about.

Expect wonderful things.

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